The NXR Podcast - August 06, 2022


QUESTIONS - Will Christians Be Ashamed In The Final Judgment？

Hosted by
Joel Webbon Harrison Smith Antonio Griffith Dale Partridge Wewsley Todd Calvin Robinson
Mentioned
Roll Flores Jesus Christ Nathan John
DAILY TRUTH - God Will Not Be Mocked DAILY TRUTH - The Patience of God

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Length

10 minutes

Words per minute

186.25

Word count

1,920

Sentence count

86


Summary

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In this episode, we discuss the importance of confessing our sins to the Lord, why we must confess to others, and why we should always confess to God. We also discuss the dangers of bitterness and how it can infect the whole church.

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00:00:21.360 Will we confess sins publicly in the final judgment and feel guilty in the final judgment?
00:00:26.360 Great question. No. All right. So first I'm going to say no, and then I'm going to say yes.
00:00:31.240 I'll distinguish between the two. I don't think we're going to confess our sins publicly in the
00:00:36.660 final judgment because what that implies was contained in that image is that we're confessing
00:00:42.720 our sins to men. Now we do have biblical commands in this life as a Christian church, confess your
00:00:49.300 sins one to another, not just to the Lord, but one to another that you might pray for one another,
00:00:54.120 that you might be healed.
00:00:56.560 But I think the reason why we confess our sins
00:00:59.740 to men in this life,
00:01:01.400 and we never confess our sins
00:01:03.420 to fellow brothers and sisters in Christ
00:01:05.180 at the expense or as a substitute
00:01:07.300 to confessing to the Lord.
00:01:09.520 And real quick, just on the issue of confession itself,
00:01:13.880 it's important that we recognize,
00:01:15.220 because some people are like,
00:01:15.860 what do you mean confess to the Lord?
00:01:16.800 Why do we even need to confess to the Lord?
00:01:18.460 He's omniscient, he knows everything.
00:01:20.260 Well, this is why.
00:01:21.660 Confession is not informing.
00:01:23.340 It is not informing God of our sin.
00:01:26.240 It is acknowledging our sin and agreeing with God about what he says regarding the severity
00:01:33.600 of our sin.
00:01:34.920 Let me say that again.
00:01:36.180 Confessing your sin to the Lord is not informing the Lord of your sin.
00:01:40.440 He has no need of you informing him.
00:01:43.220 He is omniscient.
00:01:44.220 He knows everything.
00:01:45.360 Nothing is hidden from him.
00:01:47.220 All right.
00:01:47.500 So confessing your sin to the Lord does not mean that you're informing, merely informing
00:01:51.420 the Lord of your sin.
00:01:52.800 it means that you are acknowledging and agreeing with God about what he says about your sin and
00:01:59.860 the severity of your sin. That's what it is to confess your sin to the Lord. And that also by
00:02:04.800 way of implication includes asking the Lord, petitioning the Lord for forgiveness, forgiveness
00:02:10.400 and restoration that he would heal you. All right. So that's what it is that we need to confess.
00:02:15.680 Everyone has to confess their sin to the Lord because even though he's omniscient, confession
00:02:19.920 is much more than simply information, informing.
00:02:23.180 So we first, we must confess our sins to the Lord,
00:02:25.900 acknowledging our sin before God,
00:02:27.840 agreeing with God and what he says in his word about our sin,
00:02:31.640 petitioning, asking the Lord for forgiveness
00:02:33.460 and healing, restoration, all right?
00:02:35.980 So confessing our sins one to another
00:02:37.640 is not a substitute for confessing our sins to the Lord.
00:02:39.960 So in this life, we must confess our sin to the Lord
00:02:42.780 and there are times certain sins
00:02:45.620 that we need to confess also not only to the Lord,
00:02:48.480 But in addition, not substitution, but in addition, we need to also confess those sins
00:02:53.460 to fellow brothers and sisters in Christ so that, there's a reason, so that they may pray
00:02:58.860 for us so that we might be healed, that we need the prayers of the saints.
00:03:03.360 We need not only our own petition for God to restore us, but we need intercession from
00:03:08.020 other believers that they would also join us, agree with us in prayer, interceding on
00:03:13.760 our behalf for God's restoration.
00:03:16.260 So I think of certain habitual sins.
00:03:18.020 I think of certain sins that people are bound by, certain foothold type sins, right?
00:03:25.480 I think of not just addiction, substance abuse, those kinds of things, but I think of bitterness.
00:03:30.480 Be careful, brothers, the scripture says, that there not be found in any of you a rotten
00:03:35.620 root of bitterness that would be a foothold, that would be a root that would spring up
00:03:41.360 by which many would be defiled, that it wouldn't just hurt you, but it would hurt the whole
00:03:46.220 church.
00:03:46.620 It would lend towards division and factions.
00:03:49.320 So bitterness could be a kind of foothold type sin,
00:03:53.100 stronghold type sin that has the potential
00:03:57.060 of infecting and damaging the whole church.
00:04:00.240 And therefore, it makes sense to rally the troops,
00:04:03.620 to rally people in the church,
00:04:05.340 to join you in praying for you that you might be delivered,
00:04:09.700 not just forgiven of the bitterness,
00:04:11.320 but freed from the sin of bitterness,
00:04:13.700 that you would stop being, by God's grace, a bitter person.
00:04:16.460 So we always confess our sin to the Lord.
00:04:19.120 We sometimes confess our sins one to another that we might pray for one another, that we
00:04:23.540 might be healed.
00:04:24.640 But again, here's the thing.
00:04:26.380 Confession to one another, to our fellow man, is particular, I believe, biblically particular
00:04:31.960 to this life because in this life, we have not reached a state of sinless perfection.
00:04:38.200 So why are we confessing our sins to people?
00:04:41.380 So that they might pray for us, so that we might be healed.
00:04:44.760 Well, here's the deal.
00:04:45.460 in heaven with the final judgment, we're all healed. We have reached a state of sinless
00:04:52.300 perfection. First John talks about this. When we see him, talking about Christ, we will be like
00:04:57.620 him for we shall see him as he is. We'll be like Jesus when we, and it's talking about when we go
00:05:03.580 to heaven at the end of this life, when we stand before Christ and we actually see him, it says
00:05:08.940 that immediately, it's an immediately, an immediate transformation. We will be like him in what we
00:05:14.780 regard. Not every regard. He's divine. We won't be divine. We'll always be creatures. We'll never
00:05:21.220 be God. But we will be like him in what way? Sinless. We will see him as he is, that he is
00:05:28.820 the sinless one. He is righteous. And so we have in the gospel, in the finished work of Christ,
00:05:36.680 we have the penalty of sin, the power of sin, and the presence of sin. Christ, through his cross,
00:05:41.880 he has paid the penalty of sin he is also by virtue of his death and resurrection he has broken the
00:05:48.280 power of sin so there is freedom in this life not a state of sinless perfection but that doesn't
00:05:53.220 mean that we're a hopeless cause we can gain real victory in sanctification in this life from the
00:05:58.180 power of sin so the penalty is paid the power is broken but the presence of sin still remains as
00:06:04.100 long as we're in this life right paul says romans chapter 7 sin still resides within the members of
00:06:09.400 my body and then he says at the end of it he doesn't say oh what a wretched man i am who will
00:06:13.940 save my soul no his soul has already been saved what he says is oh what a wretched man i am who
00:06:19.360 will save me from this body of death he recognizes that the completion of his salvation involves not
00:06:25.380 just justification for his soul not just sanctification by the renewing of his mind
00:06:30.200 but also glorification the the resurrection of his physical body so that so that sin would no
00:06:37.360 longer reside within the members of his flesh, that he would be saved, not just from the penalty
00:06:42.680 of sin, the power of sin, but even the mere presence of sin. So at the end of this life,
00:06:48.740 we do reach a state of sinless perfection by virtue of having glorified bodies, our
00:06:53.660 sanctification now complete, our glorification now complete, resurrected bodies, standing before
00:07:00.080 Christ, seeing him as he is, that he is sinless and therefore being like him. And because we will
00:07:06.720 therefore at that point be sinless, we no longer need to be prayed for so that we might be healed.
00:07:13.280 And therefore, I would argue that we no longer need to confess our sins one to another.
00:07:17.220 So in judgment, in the final judgment, I don't believe, let's bring the question back up one
00:07:22.340 more time. Nathan, if you could bring the question up one more time. Again, for those who are maybe
00:07:27.120 just tuning in, this is a question from Roll Flores, Roll Flores, some number, BR, no, not
00:07:35.700 numbers, but letters. Roll Flores, BR, he says, will we confess sins publicly in the final judgment?
00:07:40.840 So I would say, no, we're not going to confess our sins publicly in the sense of them being
00:07:44.620 out loud where other people can hear. I do believe though there will be not so much us
00:07:53.320 confessing our sins to God, but God rather letting us know, reminding us of our sins. I think that it
00:08:00.500 will be the moment where we are informed about our sin because here's the deal. There are sins
00:08:05.120 of commission things we do that are wrong and omission things we don't do that we should that
00:08:10.700 are right and and there are there's so many sins that we don't even know about right now if you're
00:08:16.760 a christian being sanctified you are objectively being formed by the spirit working in conjunction
00:08:22.160 with god's word objectively being conformed more into the image of christ and yet there are sins
00:08:28.600 that you you don't have a victory over yet and there are sins you don't have victory over that
00:08:33.340 you don't even have knowledge about. You don't even know. You don't. Part of sanctification is
00:08:39.300 winning, gaining victory over sin, but part of sanctification is also being further and further
00:08:44.740 informed by the Word of God and receiving the conviction of the Holy Spirit to where we
00:08:49.800 recognize certain things as sin that previously we didn't even know were wrong. There are certain
00:08:54.520 things that I now see are sinful that I did not see as sinful just even a few years ago, even
00:09:00.600 though I was still a Christian at that time. And so I believe that the final judgment will be God
00:09:05.980 informing us of our sin and also informing his law and therefore our sin, but also the gospel
00:09:13.100 that our sin has been atoned for. The penalty has been paid in full by Christ. And I think that
00:09:19.120 that'll be some kind of moment between us and God where God does inform us of all of our sins,
00:09:25.980 but not so much publicly where everybody else knows.
00:09:29.320 I think there'll be a spirit,
00:09:31.480 a universal spirit of humility among the saints in heaven.
00:09:36.340 And I don't think in order to achieve it,
00:09:38.740 God will have to hang out our dirty laundry
00:09:42.440 in front of all the hosts of heaven to see.
00:09:45.460 So I don't think it'll be a public confession
00:09:47.300 where everyone else in heaven,
00:09:48.720 people will hear about all our dirty deeds on earth.
00:09:52.080 But we will hear about all our dirty deeds on earth
00:09:55.080 from God himself, and then be reminded of the gospel of Jesus Christ, that they've all been
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